Sigurd Lavard c. 1200 has been found during excavations in Bergen, and an inscription by Magnus Erlingsson's brother, Sigurd Erlingsson Jarlsson, dated 18 June 1194, has been preserved from a portal of the now dismantled Vinje stave church. List of kings and pretenders during the civil war era Pretenders who had themselves named king, but are not counted in the official line of kings are written in italics. Magnus the Blind (1130–1135) (–1139) Harald Gille (1130–1136) Sigurd Slembe: 1135–1139 Sigurd Munn (1136–1155) Inge Crouchback (1136–1161) Øystein Haraldsson (1142–1157) Håkon the Broadshouldered (1157–1162) Magnus Erlingsson (1161–1184) Sigurd Markusfostre: 1162–1163 Olav Ugjæva: 1166–1169Eystein Meyla: 1174–1177Sverre Sigurdsson (1177–1202)Jon Kuvlung: 1185–1188Sigurd Magnusson: 1193–1194Inge Magnusson: 1196–1202Håkon Sverresson (1202–1204) Guttorm Sigurdsson (1204) Inge Bårdsson (1204–1217)Erling Stonewall: 1204–1207Filippus Simonsson: 1207–1217Håkon Håkonsson (1217–1263)Sigurd Ribbung: 1220–1226Knut Håkonsson: 1226–1227Skule Bårdsson: 1239–1240Further reading David Brégaint (2020) "Kings and aristocratic elites: communicating power and status in medieval Norway." Scandinavian Journal of History.References External links Heimkringla in English on Wikisource The Saga of King Sverri of Norway – a translation from 1899 Of Sverre, King of Norway – from William of Newburgh's History of English Affairs, Book three, chapter six Primary sources Matthew James Driscoll (ed.) (1995). Agrip Af Noregskonungasogum (Viking Society for Northern Research) Kari Ellen Gade & Theodore Murdock Andersson (eds.) (2000) Morkinskinna: The Earliest Icelandic Chronicle of the Norwegian Kings (1030–1157) (Cornell University Press) Alison Finlay; editor and translator (2004) Fagrskinna, a Catalogue of the Kings of Norway (Brill Academic Publishers) Snorri Sturluson; translator Lee M. Hollander (repr. 1991) Heimskringla : History of the Kings of Norway (University of Texas Press) Karl Jónsson; translator J. Stephton The Saga of King Sverri of Norway (Llanerch Press) Sturla Þórðarson; translation to English by G.W. Dasent (1894, repr. 1964). The Saga of Hakon and a Fragment of the Saga of Magnus with Appendices. (London: Rerum Britannicarum Medii Ævi Scriptores, vol. 88:4) Finn Hødnebø & Hallvard Magerøy (eds.); translator Gunnar Pedersen; (1979). Soga om baglarar og birkebeinar (Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget) Related reading Gathorne-Hardy, Geoffrey Malcolm (1956) A royal impostor: King Sverre of Norway (London: Oxford University Press) Bagge, Sverre (1996) }From Gang Leader to the Lord's Anointed: Kingship in Sverris Saga and Hakonar Saga Hakonarsonar (Univ Pr of Southern Denmark) Helle, Knut (1974) Norge blir en stat 1130–1319'' (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget) Civil wars involving the states and peoples of Europe Civil wars of the Middle Ages